Quoted: Blizzard Entertainment had a lot of buzz about its newest game leading up to its European event at the Porte de Versailles event center in Paris. And fans weren’t disappointed with the announcement of its new Diablo III computer game. That might make a lot of others snore. But with the pending merger of Activision and Vivendi Games (of which Blizzard

Quoted: Grou.ps, a startup based in San Francisco, has secured a $1.1 Million Series A financing round in a deal led by Golden Horn Ventures. Grou.ps will also now be open-sourcing a restricted version of its code, with a view to spreading its collaboration tools. This move is based around the idea of commoditizing the platform faster and then taking advantage

Quoted: Nifty toy or serious play? You never know with Google. Google has introduced the "Google Media Center": a free Windows-only software that lets you stream photos, videos and music from the computer on to your TV. Huh.

Quoted: Google just announced its odd Google Media Server, a Windows app that finds photos, music, and video and makes it available to DLNA devices like the PlayStation 3, XBox 360, and most Media Center PCs. Google Media Server is a Windows application that aims to bridge the gap between Google and your TV. It uses Google Desktop technology such as Desktop

Quoted: Dashwire, a program that lets smartphone users access and use their mobile data from the web, released a new version yesterday, and it looks really, really nice. We’ve written about Dashwire before as part of the growing group of programs that let user protect their mobile contacts should they lose their phone and migrate their data between carriers.

Quoted: Microsoft announced today its intention to acquire mobile services and solutions specialist MobiComp, a company headquartered in Braga, Portugal and with international bases in the UK, Malaysia, and Dubai. MobiComp provides the mobile backup and data sharing solution MobileKeeper as well as Active mTicker, a system which delivers automated notifications

Quoted: It’s been made abundantly clear that when Twitter is good, it’s really good. You can keep up with the news faster than broadcast newscasters can report it, and chime in with your own commentary too. In terms of updating and broadcasting information across a wide range of people, Twitter has proven to be quite useful (when it’s up and running, and

Quoted: The New York Stock Exchange announced today that, like rival exchange NASDAQ, it’s making real-time stock quotes available to web and media companies. Previously, anyone who wanted NYSE quotes that weren’t delayed by at least a few minutes had to get them through brokerages or subscription services; starting today, users can just go to Google Finance

Quoted: I suspected that as soon as we published the data on the 50 ex-Yahoo execs that have left the company since January 2007 our readers would chime in with more data. We’ve now added the execs we previously missed, and the list has grown to 114 people. We’ve done our best to say when each exec left and where she or he is now. These are senior directors